Specialty

Qualifications

Languages Spoken

Cantonese

English

Mandarin

Background

Dr Winston Woon is a general surgeon practising at Gleneagles Hospital, Singapore.

He is proficient in all aspects of general surgery and endoscopy (gastroscopy and colonoscopy), and his main interest lies in laparoscopic/robotic surgery including hernia, gall bladder, liver, pancreas and bile duct surgery.

He finished medical school in 1998 and did his specialist training in Australia. His 2 years of subspecialty training was in the field of laparoscopic upper gastrointestinal, liver and pancreatic surgery, with a focus on both benign and malignant conditions.

He was involved in kidney and liver transplantation in the years of working at Prince of Wales Hospital and Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

He returned to Singapore in 2010 and worked at Tan Tock Seng Hospital until 2018 as a senior consultant surgeon. During that time, he developed the hepatopancreatobiliary (HPB) surgical service in the department of general surgery, and spearheaded the training and adoption of laparoscopic surgery.

In Dr Woon's time as the chief of the HPB surgery service, Tan Tock Seng Hospital was the first hospital outside of Australia and New Zealand to be accredited as a training hospital for the Australian and New Zealand Hepatic, Pancreatic & Biliary Association fellowship programme.

Dr Woon is the current president of the Hepato Pancreato Biliary Association in Singapore.

He is a regular speaker at international conferences and has published in several peer-reviewed medical and surgical journals.